Active Digiage? Desirable Futures for Ageing People

Marina Weck, Tarja Meristö, Nina Helander

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    Abstract

    The changing age structure of population, with its growing number of ageing people, is a worldwide phenomenon among industrialized countries, and Finland is not an exception. This has implications for swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs, but also for new type of demand in related services, and thus creates business opportunities for Finnish know-how. Through qualitative semi-structured interviews this research builds understanding on the desires, needs and challenges that the ageing people have in their every-day life and especially in their use of digital technology and different kinds of digital services. This will further provide insight for the service creation for the needs of elderly people in Finland. The results presented in this paper are part of a larger research project, of which this paper represents the pilot study phase.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationWell-Being in the Information Society. Fighting Inequalities - 7th International Conference, WIS 2018, Proceedings
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages174-183
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)9783319979304
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    EventInternational Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society -
    Duration: 27 Sept 201829 Sept 2018

    Publication series

    NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
    Volume907
    ISSN (Print)1865-0929

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society
    Period27/09/1829/09/18

    Keywords

    • Assistive digital technology
    • Elderly people
    • Pilot study

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 1

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Computer Science
    • General Mathematics

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